No, writing a prompt is not hard. They just make that up for effect. No, it has not real sense of accomplishment. Yes, it's mostly arguing with the Ai

I have stopped using Ai, and have been off it since 2024. Fuck ai, and it's slop​

The same generation that hated phones, the internet, plastic surgery, all now seem to turn to ai to make fake photos of both themselves and others who don’t consent to it. And to me it just doesn’t make sense.

I’ve received a few triggered/ creepy replies like this to my comment saying to leave my mom alone but this one grossed me out the most. Especially because my mom also sometimes makes ai photos of us together without my consent. 🤦🏽‍♀️
how do they not see how creepy they are being/ sound??

How can you balance the desire to share your craft with the world and the immense hatred towards the machine that only seeks to benefit off of stealing your hard work?

Gifts are meant to be shared and art is nothing without the audience.

Having to exist within a system that actively seeks to destroy you by consuming your craft is an attempt to silence the artists and creatives that want to share their work with others.

Link: https://beincrypto.com/china-ai-bubble-burst-us-warning/

You know how you see those game recompilations and ports and everything? Well, here's the dirty little not so secret: you can easily prove that Anthropic pirated basically every video game made in history.

If you prompt it with something like: "Can you fix this bug in the arcade Street Fighter 2?" it'll literally create an environment where it RUNS AND PROBES THE GAME trying to solve the problem. I have logs that can demonstrate this. It literally runs copyrighted arcade games in MAME. It could not do this unless they were storing their own copy of all these games to run in emulation environments.

How are they getting away with this? You're telling me that Nintendo and Capcom are cool with Anthropic pirating every game they ever made so it can perform tasks related to them? Why does the entire planet have to pretend to follow copyright laws when these AI jokers don't? This whole thing is a farce.

Someone needs to expose the fact that these clowns literally DOWNLOADED THE ENTIRE INTERNET. It's largest software piracy operation in the history of the world.

To those thinking they can rebrand to AI-Specialist in X or Y, and those not hit yet. - This is only the start, it's not a matter of IF but WHEN you will be affected. Those devs that basically stare at a screen while Claude codes away? Eventually your masters will wonder whether they can replace you too. You guys said it yourself, code review is the bottle-neck, then by that logic, the last bottle-neck would be prompting itself.

The end goal for every business is to have a cozy leadership team with nothing but AI underneath. Don't think retreating to blue-collar jobs will save you. With such mass-influx of people coming in, it will immediately create oversaturation. Meaning, mass competition, very low wages and eventually, when that machines come, then you can say goodbye to that too.

But you may say:

- Bro, UBI.

You don't even have free healthcare and education (speaking to the US audience here). What makes you think these greedy fucks will give you anything?

we all know it is She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned but holy shit there’s no fucking way this can be real.

Enjoy your slops!

I think this comment speaks for itself, I haven’t got much to add apart from just being disappointed. Also the fact that at least 31 people agreed with this is concerning..

In the recent Microsoft offered packages, it seems all positions are targeted, even the people who actually grind to make the product work. Software developers would enjoy AI management very much since it's actually fairer than humans

Most of these posts are from 2024, when most people online were neutral about AI an didn't have any ideia that OpenAI was working with conservatives. I'm from the left, but I noticed that the average redditor mindset is:

"If is not working with Trump, it means that they are 1000% the good guys!"

This post was removed from another sub for “low effort”. Is it safe to be against AI online? Or am I poking a hornets nest?

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I am growing tired of the sentiment that people against AI are on a bandwagon or dont have a good reason. Its like wack-a-mole and feels like a psy-op. You want reasons?

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Well I was only convinced of one thing. Reddit has been entirely over run with AI loving bots

There is no conceivable way public opinion turned around that fast

It was impressive how poorly argued your points were

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If you’re more annoyed with people complaining about AI then everything listed here and elaborated on below then your priorities are disturbing

Also can someone make this into a meme of Greg saying those three words so we can clap back at those cringeworthy phrases?

Gonna be serious here for a sec. This entire subreddit has been kind of infested with people from our side basically poking fun at whatever the pro-ai crowd are generating. Now that would've been A okay, if it weren't for the fact that we do the exact same fucking thing to them!

I've legit seen more posts basically advertising and shilling these ai generated posts about how much we suck then actual "critical discussion" of ai now. And if we continue to show the ideas of these losers, wouldn't it be a little controversial to say that they are somewhat right?

What i'm saying here is PLEASE STOP SHOWING AND GIVING THESE FUCKERS ATTENTION.

I am in a position that is probably not very unique anymore, but just wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what to do or if there are any people who share my predicament. Sorry if this isn't the right sub for this, but the CS/programming subs are so negative, I just want somewhere else to say this. Basically a TL;DR, I used AI to complete homework assignments in my computer science courses and now I'm about to graduate with nearly zero knowledge.

I went to college majoring in Computer Science and took my intro to CS with Python course in 2019, and while I struggled a bit, I was able to pass the class and learn some very basic Python. Our final project was making a hangman game, so while it obviously wasn't complex, I got to that level. I took a semester off to move, and that was right when covid started, so I didn't go back to school for a couple of years since I didn't want to be tethered to online or more restricted courses. When I went back, generative AI was rolling out, so it was completely different when I started again.

I think initially there was an overcompensation from the CS department in regards to AI. It was against the rules to use AI for homework, but harsher rules were also extended to other aspects that I had not previously experienced. No googling concepts, no watching Youtube videos in your spare time, no reading from other developers or stack overflow, no doing anything that most developers do to really learn or explore their passion in addition to their schooling. We could only use the book, which did not cover near as much as we would have been capable of covering previously, and for my learning style, didn't explain things in a way I was understanding. With these new restrictions, I struggled greatly, and the TA's were barely allowed to show us any code or it was considered "cheating". Of course, I ended up cheating and using AI to get past these time constraints and pass the class. I take responsibility for my lack of self learning and dedication, it is my fault for using AI and not putting in the work to learn, but in my new environment it was already against the rules to study outside of the textbook, and I was struggling to find someone who could explain these concepts to me, so I cut a lot of corners early on.

With that being said, I was only past my first object oriented course when there seemed to be a massive shift in my CS department. Suddenly, we weren't just allowed to use AI for homework, but actively encouraged. In one course, a student asked for clarification and the professor doubled down: "do not write your own code for this course, we want you to use AI." ALL of my homework became AI generated. The work itself did not become more complex, in fact, it was much simpler and sometimes would only require 10ish lines of code to complete a problem, 100% of which was from AI. I started blowing through C, C++, Rust, Python, Java, Javascript, HTML/CSS, OCaml, and even Assembly with fully AI written code. I would regularly go to office hours and check in with the TA's and show them my code, show them the chat history and assure them it was fully AI generated, and they said "great. That's what we want you to do". I was very easily making 100s in my homework and sailing through the class, but now I couldn't tell you how to write a single line of code in C.

This is where I think a lot of professional SWE's don't understand what the student side looks like right now. It isn't that every single person is cheating and therefore doesn't understand code, we are told to use AI for literally everything and that is damaging us. Every language I touched besides my fundamental Python and Java, I was told to use AI to generate. I did not learn through repetition, I was not slowly building my skills overtime, I was vibe coding under the instruction of my professors and department. Now, my fundamentals are rusty to the point where I only really feel confident writing basic string/array based functions, like randomizing and outputting a word ..

Now you may be thinking that all I really need to do is go back and brush up my basics and keep practicing, but the way industry seems to be going, I am also having a bit of a crisis in feeling motivated to even learn. I went to an event recently where a SWE told us he hasn't written code in 2 years. At this point it feels like wasting my time to spend hours practicing when the work is going to be fed to bots anyway, though ever since a child I wanted to understand how to write software. What am I supposed to do? They are telling us now is the time to apply for jobs, internships, etc. yet I feel like I have virtually no applicable skills, and can not pass a technical interview if I was put into one now.

Who else is in the exact same scenario? What are you doing to navigate it? What advice does anyone have for learning, or navigating any of it?

This feature is called Coach. It appeared suddenly, is the first thing you see when you start the app, and is configured by default to send me push notifications every 2-3 days asking how I’m feeling or what I’m thinking about.

I wrote the following email to the company, offering my feedback. Feel free to copy and customize this to your needs if you want to do the same for other apps. Text below.

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Grow Therapy is an online platform that was ostensibly built to provide clients with affordable remote access to human therapists.

With the last update, it seems to be entirely reoriented to center around “Coach”, a personal AI chatbot that pesters me every 2-3 days to engage, vent, or divulge my feelings. This isn’t a trained person who wants to help me— it’s an extremely complex next-letter guessing algorithm that’s been instructed to convincingly feign interest in my well-being.

Given everything we’re learning about the negative mental health outcomes for people who develop para-social relationships with chat bots, this is (at best) a really tone-deaf decision which follows a tech trend of cramming AI features into every single thing we interact with. But if you ask my opinion, it’s revolting. Nobody asked for this, and patients willing to engage with it are more likely to be the ones who shouldn’t be encouraged to use it.

I was only able to disable notifications from this invasive and annoying new “feature”, but it still sits there building a one sided chat log without my participation, and it’s the default screen when I log in. My actual relevant notifications get buried in this chat transcript.

At minimum, patients should be able to disable the bot completely. A feature like this has no business being part of a therapy platform. It’s easily enough to make me stop using Grow Therapy entirely and cancel my account, but Grow is currently the only way to continue seeing my doctor, which feels especially insidious given the circumstances.

Respectfully, please stop this.